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Helen Keller from Tragedy to Worldwide Helen Keller From Tragedy to Worldwide Triumphs Nolan Vondran Senior Individual Exhibit Student Composed Words: 498 Process Paper: 499 I remembered the countless mentions in lectures and textbooks of Helen Keller. I knew that there was more information - regarding her tragedy and triumph- which prompted me to research more about her story. Additionally, as a training CNA, I worked with impaired children on a daily basis and wanted to gather information to express that they are not limited by their disability. I began my research at the Helen Keller Archives. There, I found multiple photos, ​ ​ historical events, and important information regarding Keller. Specifically, this information allowed me to understand her tragedies and how she was able to triumph in multiple ways. I continued to expand my knowledge through books from the library, magazines, and the Proquest database, allowing me to learn who she was and how she began a career in advocating for the others. From there, I visited the Helen Keller Museum: “Ivy Green” in Tuscumbia, AL, ​ ​ ultimately leading me to obtain my sources needed for this project. I chose to do an exhibit for the purpose of an appealing visual representation for the information about Keller. I began by separating my board based on this year’s NHD theme. I wanted to display informative facts and photos of her global triumphs, life as an activist, and the historical context of her journey. The left and right side of the board emphasized how Keller advocated in bringing triumph to issues in the world, as well as the impact left through her triumphs. I created a 3D effect to emphasize Keller’s unforgettable journey. Each caption and photo was numbered to assist the viewing process of the board. The timeline was created to depict the important events throughout her life. Lastly, the thesis and conclusion were enlarged to stand out and catch the eye of the viewer. Helen Keller relates to this year’s theme because she experienced an early tragedy, yet triumphed in advocating for others, becoming well known for her successes today. Despite her physical disabilities, Helen Keller was able to triumphantly fight for the rights of others on a national and global scale. Throughout the early and mid-1900s, Keller became an advocate for monumental causes including the suffragist movement, labor reform as well as an advocate for the needs of people with vision loss. As a social and political activist, Keller was able to help others to overcome personal obstacles and tragedy, leading by example and courage. Even though Helen Keller experienced an illness that led to the tragic loss of her sight and hearing, she emerged as an advocate for others. She was committed to raising awareness for people with multiple disabilities and impairments, providing essential health care services to women, improvements in the workforce, and supporting equal educational opportunities to minorities. Additionally, the improvements in the lives of people who experienced vision loss can be attributed directly to Keller’s triumphant efforts and determination. Although Keller did not have the physical ability of vision, she was able to see potential and progress in the lives of others. Annotated Bibliography Primary Sources American Foundation for the Blind. Helen Keller Cheers Actors Strike Pickets. Newsletter, 1919. ​ ​ From American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller Archives. [33] ​ ​ Helen Keller was an active supporter for beneficial working conditions, and continually wanted to allow fair treatment for these labor workers. Photographed on this newspaper, one is able to see her support through the actors’ strike. The image, not only shows her ability to create a platform for these workers, but to expand on why she was the face of the Industrial Workers of the World. Her vision allowed them to gain a voice in their organization. Additionally, a correlation to the ACLU, another organization that she found, was within her speeches about child labor, and working females, which Keller actively supported with both association. [Anne Sullivan, Polly Thompson, and Helen Keller] Photograph. Tuscumbia, AL, n.d., From American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller Archives. (accessed 12 Aug. 2018) [11] ​ ​ Polly Thompson and Anne Sullivan were lifelong friends of Helen Keller. These two women were constantly alongside Keller in her advocacy career. When Sullivan first came to Tuscumbia to educate Keller, she did not only teach her the basics of learning manners, and the manual alphabet, but included her in on worldwide issues. Keller develop a fascination for follow in her teachers footsteps to change the world. I included this on my exhibit, to show not only the relationship that Helen Keller developed with Anne Sullivan, but Polly Thompson as well. Thompson was important in Keller’s worldwide triumphs, because she was the one who was always along her side with her travels and speeches. Thompson would translate Keller’s speeches, and sign what was being said to her, in her hand, for communication. I wanted to use this photo because these two women were important to Helen and influential in your life. Bayldon Margaret C. Director of Public Relations (HKI). In Haiti… With Helen Keller ​ International, Dec 1977. Pamphlet. From American Foundation for the Blind: Helen ​ ​ Keller Archives. [72] ​ Margaret Bayldon was the Public Relations director for the Helen Keller International organization. Working on a global scale, the HKI center is dedicated to saving and improving the sight and lives of causes and consequences of blindness, poor health conditions, and malnutrition. Bayldon created a pamphlet in 1977 to express their works, which included pictures of Helen Keller with these children, and was sectioned into different categories to raise awareness to the general public. I wanted to display this on my board to express how they took Helen Keller’s worldwide impacts, and under Keller's cooperation with this association, are continuing to promote good health. [Captain Arthur H. Keller]. Photograph. Tuscumbia, AL, 1890., From American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller Archives. (accessed 10 Aug. 2018) [4] ​ ​ Confederate Captain, Arthur H. Keller, was Helen Keller’s father. As a confederate soldier, Mr. Keller was an apologist on slavery, this meaning that he defended slavery as something that the community,“had to have.” Once they moved to Tuscumbia, AL, Arthur and Catherine had Helen Keller. However, Captain Keller saw no potential in “fixing” his daughter’s condition at an early age, and pushed for sending her into an institution. He explained how feeling pity for Helen was not going to cure her, and he could not bare to see his daughter suffer anymore. However, upon communication with his wife, they found a solution to not send her to an asylum. I wanted to include this in my exhibit, to show the contradiction and irony behind Helen Keller's advocacy for African-American rights, as well as, explain how Keller would not be known for her successes if she had been sent to a psychiatric hospital. [Cottage Exterior, Birthplace of Helen Keller]. Photograph. Tuscumbia, AL, n.d., From American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller Archives. (accessed 10 Aug. 2018) [3] ​ ​ When learning about the birthplace of Helen Keller, I was able to pull the image of her main living cottage to use on my board. Helen Keller grew up in this home until the age of seven. A family friend, Alexander Graham Bell, told Catherine Keller to hire a teacher to educate their daughter. So the Perkins School for the Blind sent their best student, Anne Sullivan, to teach this defiant child. In displaying this photo, I was able to show a deeper comprehension on how this defiant child’s tragic illness was turned into a triumph right on her childhood property. “Czar, Roosevelt and John D. Rockefeller: Three Most Bloodthirsty Men in the World,” The ​ Evening World (New York, NY), January 7, 1916, Final Edition, p. 3. [45] ​ During the early 1900’s, many people, including Ida Tarbell, Thomas Nast, and many others, were targeting big corporation owners like Rockefeller. This newspaper clipping expressed Helen Keller’s perspective on these big name corporations. However, it was her speech on the wartime efforts under President Roosevelt that shocked the nation. I included this newspaper on my board to show how Keller was not afraid to express her opinions, and voice her stance in public. Furthermore, I wanted viewers to be able to see how this social activist was active in politics to better the United States and create “peace” amongst everyone. [Helen Keller Age 7] Photograph. Tuscumbia, AL. c1885. From American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller Archives. [8] ​ ​ I used this photograph on my board to show how Helen Keller was born with the tragedy of becoming blind and deaf at the age of 9 months, but in 1887, when she turned seven years old she was able to turn that tragedy into a triumph and began to learn sign language, braille, and even speak under the instruction of Anne Sullivan. [Helen Keller Arriving in India] Photograph. Bombay, India. c1955. From American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller Archives. [21] Traveling as a social activist, Helen Keller would give 12 speeches to the public, meet with various international presidents, check-in on local hospital and rehabilitation centers, and educate the children and community, with Polly Thompson along her side. This image on my board exemplified the moment Helen Keller arrived in India. I wanted to include this to show, how in just a week and 3 days of visiting foreign nations, Helen Keller accomplished her goal to shape global policies on issues within society. It mostly with vision and hearing impairments. In doing this, Keller was able to give hope and inspiration in their time of tragedy.
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